Monday, November 12, 2012

A breaking point is the point at which
something or someone gives way under strain. Not a lot of people make me hit
that breaking point, but if they do, I would want to hurt them for doing
whatever they did. I’m not the type of person who breaks down in tears. I’m
just like Winston. Winston does not really have people who hit his breaking
point, but there was one thing that did make him hit that point that caused him
to subject Julia to this torture instead of him, and that was his fears. This
is very depressing moment because Winston really loved Julia and she really
didn’t do anything to make him do this.

One thing that makes me hit my breaking
point is when someone is playing a cruel joke or if they are using my fears to
scare me. One thing I’m really fearful of is getting shot. My friend did not
have a real gun, but he had a BB gun and they really hurt if you get shot by
them. I told him that if he shoots me, I’m going to kick his butt. He must have
thought I was playing when I told him, because he shot me afterwards. After
that, fists were flying and he lost a good friend for a stupid reason. In the
book 1984, Winston’s fear was rats. He was very terrified at the sight of them
and Obrien used rats to torture Winston. Before Obrien used rats to torture
Winston, he had people beat him with fists, weapons, and their feet to get him
to break, but that didn’t do anything to Winston. When Obrien used rats,
Winston was very frightened. Remember, Winston was afraid at the sight of rats
earlier in the book, but these rats are touching and biting off Winston’s face.
This made Winston hit his breaking point. It caused him to completely not care
if she was going to get hurt or not.

Winston really loved Julia. He just
couldn’t take all the stress Obrien was giving him and he hit that breaking
point and gave in. The person I was originally friends with was a great friend,
but he was a bad influence to me. He was just like Julia who was a bad
influence to Winston in the book. The secret relationship between them two
caused both of them to get arrested and Winston had to go through torture all
the time until he gave in and subject Julia to the torture instead of him.

My name is Amara Diomande and I am currently in
high school and my teacher assigned my class to do a blog, so I’m going to blog
about myself. I am 15 years old and I am African-American. I live in Berkeley,
IL. I have two brothers and one sister and they are all in their early 20s, so
I’m like the youngest in the house. My hair color is black and the style I have
is Dreadlocks. They are not completely locked, but the ends are, and they aren’t
at a long length yet. I have a cat and I also have a dog who I’m trying to
train. I recently got him in August from a family who couldn’t really take care
of him. His name is Milo and he is currently 8 months old. The school that I am
now in is Proviso Mathematics and Science Academy. Here's the web link: pmsa.pths209.org.I’m a
tenth grader and my freshman year went by swimmingly. Usually the freshmans in
most high schools gets picked on the most, but this school doesn’t, which I’m
glad about. The classes are very advanced because this school is for honor
students. You can’t really get in this school unless you start of as a
9th grader just like the
others. Some of my friends from my original school couldn’t get in so I pretty
much had to make new friends. I miss them dearly and I hope they are alright. In
this school, I have a lot of friends from different grades. The reason why is
because I’m a nice guy who is very funny and sociable, but I’m serious when it
comes to work. I’m not a trouble maker and I do not argue or talk back to
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Heroes always change in our mind as
we grow. As a child, we think of superheroes, imaginary friends, and cartoons
as our real heroes. As we grow older, our opinions keep changing from time to
time. We’ll begin to think about the real things, about what heroes really are.
How they really help people. Hero really affects our lives and other people's
lives too. They change the way we think, teaching good things, and more. We
always need heroes. People like the police officers, our parents, doctors, and
firefighters are the people that we need. They help our society and the way we
live. In the book 1984, Winston’s childhood was different from some people. He
didn’t really have a hero for his parents disappeared when he was young.

Who people really think is their
hero is the people who loves them the most which is their parents. The reason
of that is because they raised us since we were a child. The way they raise us
as a child will affect us when we get older. They took care of us, they fed us,
they put clothes on our backs, and they gave us a good home to live in. They
were always there to help when needed, and as long as we were on their good
side, everything would be okay. If we are not, then they will discipline us. They
call it tough love. Without it, kids would not act right. Winston’s childhood was not good. He was exposed
to bad and horrible things. This was after his parents disappeared during the
war, and that affect his life later on.

Parents teaches us what’s right
from wrong, how to be respectful to people, to never be negative, and to never use
profanity. It is very difficult to grow up without parents and still make it
through life. Without our parents, we would be lost in life. We would be disrespectful
people with no education, no job, no life whatsoever, no home training, in jail,
and no one would give a care about us because it’s not their problem. Winston’s
life went wrong later on because he was not taught good things during his
childhood years. He grew up not respecting the rules that the government was
giving him even though they weren’t right, so for his punishment, he was
completely brainwashed into following orders.

We all believe that we need people
like the police officers, doctors, and firefighters. They may help our society
and the way we live, but parents are better than them because these people
can’t love and take care of us like our parents do. With our parents, our lives
will be very good and even better when we get older. We’ll have a good enough
education to get a job, or even a career. No one would dislike us because we
are very respectful and cordial. That is why our parents are the real heroes.

Everyone has a fear of something.It’s something that we don’t
want to happen to ourselves but some cannot help it. Fear is an upsetting
emotion produced by threat, danger, pain, etc. In the book 1984, Winston’s fear
was rats. He wasn’t just troubled by rats. He was petrified of them. This was
first revealed in Chapter IV, when he screamed at the sight of a rat. It’s
embarrassing for Winston to be afraid of rats because his girlfriend, Julia,
was right there at the time and she didn’t show any fear at all. The book shows
that everyone has a fear.

Winston cannot tolerate rats, and
O'Brien knows this and takes advantage of this fear in Room 101.Winston sacrifices Julia.He had hoped to keep his love for her in his
heart, but the threat of rats in Room 101 destroys this.After that, he has nothing left to love but
Big Brother. Before Obrien used rats to torture Winston, he had people beat him
with fists, weapons, and their feet to get him to break, but that didn’t do
anything to Winston. When Obrien used rats, Winston was very terrified. One
thing I’m really fearful of is getting shot. I’ve seen stories on the news of
people dying every day from a shot and that really spooked me up. If there was
a chance that I was getting robbed with an assault weapon, I would completely
break down and act the same way Winston did in the rat cage.

When one lets themselves stay in fear,
they are choosing to have the fear guide their actions like Winston did whenhe sacrificed Julia to
this torture instead of him. I'm sure everyone has felt overwhelmed by fear at
some point, maybe often. Most of us feel fear to some level or another, which
is fine at a certain level, butwhen
fear causes you to sacrifice someone’s life, then this must be a serous phobia.
It’s very depressing that Winston did that because Julia was the only true love
for him, and now he has no one else to love but Big Brother. That is a sad
ending to the book, but that’s what fear does to people.